[Ran Schijanovich Interview]

Call Number
392-2-11:14/1

General information

Call No.:
392-2-11:14/1
Part of series
HU OSA 392-2-11 Video Recordings of WITNESS: WITNESS Partners' Raw Footage: Nah We Yone ["It Belongs to Us"] - Support to Sierra Leonean refugees
Located at
DVD-ROM #14 / No. 1
Digital ver. identifier
HU OSA 392-2-11_014
Date of production
2002-05-20
Date
2002
Level
Item
Primary Type
Moving image
Language
English
Duration
57 min.

Content

Form/Genre
Raw material
Contents Summary
Interview with Ran Schijanovich, lawyer with the Catholic Legal Immigration Network in Newark New Jersey, who represents asylum seekers held in the Elizabeth, NJ detention facility. He talks about the procedure for applying for asylum and the conditions inside as well as the toll it has taken on him. He is leaving after 2 years because of the emotional toll. He described differences in post-September 11th asylum-seeking process, how it has been speeded up and the outcomes more likely to go against the seeker, how claims from persons from Arab or Islamic countries are more likely to be turned down, He describes how depressed the detainees can become, and the difficulty of obtaining volunteer interpreters

Context

Associated Names
WITNESS (Copyright holder)
NWY (Copyright holder)